Der Rufer in der Wüste

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Sculpture “The Caller in the Desert” by Josef Heu. The work from 1929 is located in front of the rectory in Deutsch-Wagram.

Josef Heu (1875-1954) was an Austrian painter, sculptor and teacher. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. During World War I, he worked as a war painter and sculptor in the k.u.k. War Press Quarters. In the years 1930 to 1934 he was president of the Austrian Society for Christian Art. After the Anschluss in 1938, he was banned from working by the Nazis because of his Jewish wife, his studio was confiscated and he had to flee to England. Probably his most important work was the sculpture “The Caller in the Desert”, which was shown in 1946 in the great anti-fascist exhibition “Never Forget” in Vienna.